How to Import Wordpress Blog to Blogger (Blogpost)
First Step - Export
The first thing you'll do to export your WordPress blog. If it's a single person blog you maintain, this usually isn't a problem.
- Log in to your account wherever you're hosting it. In my case, I'm using a blog hosted on my own domain with my own installation of WordPress software. You may have started a blog on WordPress.com. The process is the same.
- Go to the Dashboard.
- Click on Tools: Export
- You'll get some options here, so if you want only the posts or only the pages, you can do that. In most cases, you'll want to export both.
- Click on Download Export File.
You'll end up downloading an export file with a name that looks something like "nameoftheblog.wordpress.dateofexport.xml" This is an XML file specifically designed as a backup of WordPress content. If your intent is to move your blog from one WordPress server to another, you're set. In this case we need to massage the data to get it to the format we need.
The Second Step - Conversion
The Data Liberation Front hosts an open source project called the Google Blog Converters, which is designed to do exactly what we need. The WordPress to Blogger conversion tool will take that XML file and change the markup into Blogger's format.
- Upload your file using the WordPress to Blogger tool.
- Press Convert.
- Save your converted file to your hard drive.
In this case, you're going to get a file named "blogger-export.xml." The only thing that's really changed is the XML markup.
The Final Step - Import
Ok, now you've got your old blog data converted to a format for Blogger. Now you've got to import that blog into Blogger.
You could start a new blog, or you could import your content into an existing blog. The dates of your posts will be whatever date they were on WordPress, so if you had an old blog you forgot about or didn't realize you could import, this is a good way to backfill your content.
- Log into Blogger, and go into the settings for your blog. The steps you use to get there may vary a little, depending on whether you're using the old or new version of the Blogger dashboard.
- Go to Settings: Other
- Click on Import Blog
- You'll need to browse for your blogger-import.xml. (Don't try the original WordPress file. It won't work.) You may need to enter some CAPTCHA text. This is to prevent someone from using a script to hack your account and import a bunch of spam posts.
- Choose whether or not to automatically publish all posts. Uncheck this box if you want your posts to be imported as draft posts. It might be a good idea if you want to preview your work and make sure everything imported as expected.
Congratulations, you're done. Inspect your posts to make sure your images and content made the trip.
WHY SHOULD YOU HAVE BOTH A WORDPRESS BLOG AND A BLOGGER ( BLOGSPOT ) ?
Blogger, also referred to as blogspot, offers free blogs that can be built in minutes and carry the benefit of ranking quite highly in Google, unlike your new blog that stands on its own. Though quite simplistic in features, you can make a very nice looking blog and even monetize it with Adsense and other affiliate programs, so it not only helps generate traffic, it can be another successful revenue source.
Because Blogger ranks so quickly in Google, it can be used as a tool to point traffic to your main website or blog, instead of waiting for your site to mature on its own, which can take a long time.
Wordpress.org by far is the best platform for blogging but if you don't have money to host the site yourself can use Blogger (Blogspot) which is a free alternative. Having both is like having the best of both worlds (a site that stand on its on and is fully customizable (Wordpress.org) and a site that ranks high in Google Searches which can drive traffic to your main site.
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